May 18 - Van Gough Museum Amsterdam: Self Portrait
May 18 - Van Gough's famous 'Tulip Fields'
May 18 - Amsterdam Canal Cruise: Dutch houseboats (notice grass on top of this houseboat)
May 18 - Famous '7 Bridges' in Amsterdam
May 18 - Gardens in front of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
May 20 - Windmills in Kinderdjik: They can adjust the direction of the sails according to the wind direction. Quite the process as they demonstrated. This is a working windmill that what: mills grain.
May 20 - Inside the windmill. This post is the square shaft to mill the grain.
May 21 - Cologne Cathedral in Cologn (Koln), Germany
May 25 - 'The Last Supper' in Bamberg Cathedral, Germany
May 25 - Smoked Beer in Bamberg, Germany. It was delicious (not too smoky either)
May 25 - Smokebeer History
May 26 - 'Beautiful Fountain' in Nuremberg, Germany
May 28 - Glass Museum in Passau: pictures before and after turning on the UV light.
Uranium glass before the UV light.
Uranium glass with UV light on.
Glass Museum: one of the many (and there were thousands) of glass pieces. Not all were this large.
May 28 - a Cuckoo clock in Passau. Some (like this complex one) are selling for thousands of dollars.
June 1 - Tassel Tiebacks used in the hotel for 'Do Not Disturb' (red), 'Clean the room' (yellow) and 'No Need for Cleaning' (blue)
June 1 - The 'Do Not Disturb' tieback tassel.
June 3 - Prague: 'Head of Franz Kafka'. 42 individual rotating panels of stainless steel plates. They move independently turning the head around in 15 minutes. Stands about 36 feet tall.
Babies Sculpture by Czech artist David Cerny. Located on Kampa Island, Prague. Distinguished by their faceless heads featuring a bar code. Resembling the numeric tattoos placed on the Jews: dehuminization of society.
Prague Astrological Clock attached to the Old Town Town Hall in Prague. Created in 1410. At the top of the hour, the blue doors open and 'The Walk of the Apostles' shows the moving figures and other sculptures including a skeleton.
